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Thursday, February 9th, 2012STOCK Act Passes House. Isn’t it a shame that we have to have an act passed to prod our leaders to do the right thing? Not only that, I thought insider trading was already against the law? In case you were wondering why “stock” was in all caps, it’s an acronym that stands for Stop [...]
State-by-State Median Household Income Growth 2007-2010 (It’s not pretty)
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012I found the following quote from this WSJ piece interesting: The District of Columbia notched the greatest increase over the 2007-2010 period, with an 8.1% jump in income, in large part because of federal-government employment. It’s nice to be the government, I guess. I don’t know what else to say to that. The rest of [...]
A Numbers Riddle for You
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012My brother-in-law posted this on Facebook this morning and I’m curious to know how many of you will get the answer correct on the first try. I’ll admit I got it wrong until I wrote it out as an algebra equation (hey, give me some credit for at least remembering how to do that): A [...]
My Thoughts As My Oldest Son Gets His Driver’s License…
Thursday, January 12th, 2012My oldest son has been 16-years old for several months but we just got his driver’s license today. Wow! Wow in the fact that I have a kid old enough to drive legally and wow in the fact that I’m old enough to have a kid who can drive legally. It doesn’t seem that long [...]
A Message All Kids Should Hear
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012Thought this was a great speech by a nice kid:
The Father of the 401(K) Wants to Kill Them Off and Start Over
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011NOTE: My wife is off work this week and the kids are out of school. My family is coming to town on Wednesday. So…I’m spending time with the family. I’ll be back next week. I’ll also announce the book winner next week. Interesting piece on 401(K) plans and the guy who helped create them, Ted [...]
OT: My Brother’s Music
Monday, October 31st, 2011My brother took a short scene from the movie, “Up!” and added his own piano playing. Tell me what you think. You can compare it to the original by fast forwarding the following video to 3:30… Oh, and PLEASE become of a facebook fan of The Music of Christopher Pritchard.
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